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GRIZZLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having dark hairs mixed with grey or white
Classified under:
Similar:
brunet; brunette (marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb grizzle
Context examples:
The huge body, the craggy and deeply seamed face with the fierce eyes and hawk-like nose, the grizzled hair which nearly brushed our cottage ceiling, the beard—golden at the fringes and white near the lips, save for the nicotine stain from his perpetual cigar—all these were as well known in London as in Africa, and could only be associated with the tremendous personality of Dr. Leon Sterndale, the great lion-hunter and explorer.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“He is in camp, near Montpezat, two hours' march from here, my fair lord,” said Johnston, the grizzled bowman who commanded the archers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She was a placid-faced woman, with large, gentle eyes, and grizzled hair curving down over her temples on each side.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“The betting is three to one against him now,” said a gentleman, whose grizzled moustache showed that he was an officer of the late war.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was an elderly man, with a thin, projecting nose, a high, bald forehead, and a huge grizzled moustache.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On her other side ran a gaunt old wolf, grizzled and marked with the scars of many battles.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual smell of drink.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here and there in the ranks were old soldiers of the French wars, grizzled and lean, with fierce, puckered features and shaggy, bristling brows.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I stared hard myself at her flat, grizzled hair, her trim cap, her little gilt earrings, her placid features; but I could see nothing which could account for my companion’s evident excitement.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We put our grizzled heads together, we older ones, and we talk of the great days that we have known; but we find that when it is with our children that we talk it is a hard matter to make them understand.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
